1. Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
2. As the people journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3. They said to each other, “Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and tar for mortar.
4. Then they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top will reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
5. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men built.